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OREGON 

PUREST FIRE 

LAWS 



1911-1919 




Facts Regarding Oregon's Forests 

Oregon has one-sixth of the standing tim- 
ber of the United States, or about 450,- 
000,000,000 feet. 

This timber is worth on the stump not 
less than $600,000,000.00, and if manufac- 
tured will bring in over $6,800,000,000.00 
of outside money. It will either be manu- 
factured or destroyed by fire. 

Oregon's forests already distribute more 
wealth in the state than apples, fish, wool, 
and wheat combined. Cutting has hardly 
begun. 

Over $70,000.00 of outside money is each 
day brought into Oregon by . the lumber 
industry. 

Over 80 per cent of the value of Oregon's 
timber product is paid out for labor, taxes, 
rent, etc. The lumber industry pays out 
for wages a greater proportion of the value 
of its prdduct than any other industry. 

Oregon's timber pays a large part of the 
taxes of the state; in some counties the 
bulk of them. 

Timber owners are spending each year 
for fire protection about $150,000.00, the 
federal government spends for patrol $150,- 
000.00, and under this law the state has at 
its command for the protection of its for- 
ests, $54,000.00 for this biennium. 

Oregon's timbered area is approximately 
20,000,000 acres. Of this amount, one-half 
is patrolled by the federal government; the 
rest must be looked after by the state and 
the private owner. 



Any information that will assist this 
department in better protecting the public 
from fire will be gratefully received and 
carefully considered. 

F. A. ELLIOTT, 
State Forester, 

Salem, Oregon. 



OREGON FOREST FIRE 
LAWS 



Enacted by the 

LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY 

1911-1919 



STATE BOARD OF FORESTRY 

Governor Ben W. Olcott 
Chairman -------- Salem 

George W. Peavy 
Forestry Department, O. A. C. - Corvallis 

C. E. Spence 
Oregon State Grange - - - Oregon City 

Geo. B. McLeod 
Oregon Forest Fire Association - - Portland 

George H. Cecil 
U. S. Forest Service ----- Portland 

L. S. Hill 
Oregon and Washington Lumber Manu- 
facturers' Association - - Cottage Grove 

Dan P. Smtthe 
Oregon Woolgrowers' Association - Pendleton 

F. A. Elliott 
State Forester ------ Salem 



Salem, Oregon : 

State Printing Department 

1919 



OREGON FOREST FIRE LAWS | 

CHAPTER 278 SjJd-Zl 
of the « C77 

LAWS OF OREGON FOR 19ll/"rj 

As amended by Chapter 69, Laws of 1915 ; Chap- 
ter 76, Laws of 1917, and Chapter 235, 
Laws of 1919. 

Section 1. There shall be a state board 
of forestry, consisting of the governor, the 
acting head of the forest school of the 
Oregon Agricultural College, and five elec- 
tors of the state of Oregon, to be appointed 
by the governor from and upon the authori- 
tative recommendation of the Oregon State 
Grange, the Oregon Forest Fire Associa- 
tion, the Oregon and Washington Lumber- 
Manufacturers' Association and the United 
States Forest Service, and Oregon Wool- 
growers' Association, each to select and 
name one of such electors. In the absence 
of such recommendation the governor shall 
nevertheless appoint said electors. Said 
board of forestry shall supervise all mat- 
ters of forest policy and management under 
the jurisdiction of the state, and approv a 
claims for expenses incurred under the 
provisions of this act. The members of said 
board shall receive no compensation for 
their services thereon but shall be entitled 
to actual traveling expenses which may b: 
incurred in attending board meetings. 

Said board shall meet at any convenie" 
place in the state upon the call of the gov 
ernor or its secretary. A majority of said 
board shall constitute a quorum. 

Section 2. The state board of forestry 
shall appoint a state forester, who shall 
be a practical forester familiar with west- 
ern conditions and experienced in organiza- 
tion for the prevention of forest fires. H( 
shall hold office at the pleasure of said; 
board, which shall also have power to fix! 
his compensation at not to exceed thr^e 
thousand dollars ($3,000.00) per annum. He j 
shall be autfibj'izqjl^and empowered to ap- 

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point a deputy whose salary shall be fixed 
by the state board of forestry at not to 
exceed eighteen hundred dollars ($1,800.00) 
per annum. He shall be allowed necessary 
office and contingent expenses, including 
clerical help, and he and his deputy shall 
be paid actual traveling and field expenses 
which may be incurred in the performance 
of their official duties. He shall, under the 
supervision of the state board of forestry, 
execute all matters pertaining to forestry 
within the jurisdiction of the state; ap- 
point and instruct fire wardens as provided 
for in this act; direct the improvement and 
protection of state forest lands; collect data 
relative to forest conditions; take such 
action as is authorized by law to prevent and 
extinguish forest, brush and grass fires; 
enforce all laws pertaining to forest and 
brush-covered land and prosecute for any 
violation of said laws; cooperate with land 
owners, counties or others in forest protec- 
tion; advise and encourage reforestation; 
and publish such information on forestry 
as he may deem wise. He shall act as sec- 
retary of the state board of forestry and 
prepare annually a report to the governor 
on the progress and condition of state for- 
est work, containing recommendations for 
improving methods of forest protection, 
management and reproduction within the 
state of Oregon. During the state for- 
ester's absence or disability, all his author- 
ity shall be exercised by his deputy. 

Section 3. Under such general policy as 
to qualifications, numbers and localities as 
the state forester shall deem wise, he shall 
appoint suitable and proper citizens fire 
wardens who shall have all the powers given 
to fire wardens under this act, but shall 
serve voluntarily or under compensation by 
property owners or counties. State and 
county officials whose duties make their ex 
officio services as fire wardens especially 
desirable as a convenience to the public, 
shall accept appointments as such when 
formally requested by the state board of 

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forestry. Upon the recommendation of fed- 
eral forest supervisors, the state forester 
shall appoint resident officers of the 
national forest ex officio fire wardens. In 
times or localities of particular fire danger, 
or to enforce the fire laws or apprehend 
and prosecute violators thereof, the state 
forester shall have power to appoint and 
employ, either independently or jointly with 
other agencies, such additional fire wardens, 
and furnish these such assistance and facil- 
ities for protecting life or property from 
fire, as he shall deem public safety demands 
and unless contributed by other sources, the 
cost thereof shall be paid from the funds 
appropriated by this act, but each county 
in which such service is given shall be 
responsible for one-third the expenses thus 
actually incurred and paid by the state for 
services within said county and upon de 
mand by the state treasurer shall pay the 
amount thus due into the state treasury, to 
be credited to the fund appropriated by 
this act. 

Section 4. The state forester shall, with 
the advice of property owners or agents or 
counties desiring to cooperate in forest pro- 
tection, designate suitable areas to be offi- 
cial fire districts. He may appoint for each 
district one or more district fire wardens 
to be paid as other fire wardens under this 
act and to serve until their appointments 
are revoked by their employers' request or 
by the state forester for good cause shown. 
Upon written notice to the state forester 
by the person or authority upon whose 
recommendation any other fire warden is 
appointed, said fire warden shall be subject 
to the direction of the proper district fir 
warden. 

Section 5. Any and all inadequately pr 
tected forest or cut-over land adjoinin 
lying near, or intermingling with other for 
est land and covered wholly or in part b 
inflammable debris or otherwise likely t 
further the spread of fire, which by reaso 
of such location or condition or lack of pro- 



tection endangers life or property, is here- 
by declared to be a public nuisance and 
whenever the state forester shall learn 
thereof he shall notify the owners or per- 
sons in control or possession of said land, 
requesting them to take proper steps for its 
protection and advising them of means 
and methods to that end. In case of refusal 
or neglect by any person or persons at fault, 
after proper notice to take the precautions 
against fire required by this section or 
requested by the state forester, as herein- 
before provided, the state forester, or dis- 
trict fire warden, acting with his consent, 
may have such work done as he deems 
requisite to public safety or the protection 
of life or property, and the cost thereof and 
the expense of any fire patrol rendered nec- 
essary by the want of adequate protection 
of such forest or cut-over land shall be 
recoverable from the offender by action for 
debt prosecuted in the name of the state 
of Oregon. 

Section 6 (as amended 1919). All fire 
wardens appointed under this act shall, 
under instruction from the state forester as 
to their exercise of state authority, take 
proper steps for the prevention and ex- 
tinguishment of fires within the localities 
in which they exercise their functions, 
assist in apprehending and convicting 
offenders against the fire laws, control the 
use of fire for clearing land in the closed 
season as provided by Sections 7 and 8 of 
this act, and make such reports of their 
work and conditions within their localities 
as may be requested by the state forester. 
They shall have the power of police officers 
to make arrests for violation of forest laws. 
They shall have power to enter upon the 
lands of any person or owner in the dis- 
charge of their duties; provided, that in so 
entering they shall exercise due care to 
avoid doing damage. Any fire warden who 
has information which would show, with 
reasonable certainty that any person has 



violated any provision of the forest laws, 
shall immediately take action against the 
offender, either by using his own power as 
a peace officer or by making complaint be- 
fore the proper magistrate, or by the filing 
of information with the district attorney, 
and shall obtain all possible evidence. Fail- 
ure on the part of any fire warden receiv- 
ing compensation to comply with the duties 
prescribed by this act shall be a misde- 
meanor and punishable by a fine of not less 
than twenty dollars ($20.00), nor more than 
two hundred and fifty dollars ($250.00), or 
by imprisonment in the county jail for not 
less than ten (10) days nor more than three 
(3) months, or both such fine and imprison- 
ment. Any able bodied man refusing with- 
out reasonable excuse, to render assistance 
in suppressing a grass, brush or forest fire 
when called upon by a regularly appointed 
state fire warden, shall be guilty, of a mis- 
demeanor, and shall be punished by a fine 
of not less than ten dollars ($10.00), nor 
more than one hundred dollars ($100.00* 
provided, that any such person so called upon 
for assistance shall be paid the going rate 
of wages for such work, and in case such 
person is called from other employment, 
then he shall be paid not less than the rate 
of wages paid him in such other employment. 
Section 7. During the period between 
June 1 and October 1, which is hereby 
designated the closed season, it shall be 
unlawful for any person or persons to set 
on fire, or cause to be set on fire, any slash- 
ing, chopping, wood land or brush land, 
either his or their own or the property of 
another, without written or printed per- 
mission from a fire warden and compli- 
ance with the terms thereof which shall 
prescribe the conditions upon which the per- 
mit is given and which are necessary to be 
observed in setting such fire and to pre- 
vent it from spreading so that life or prop- 
erty of another may be endangered, there- 
by. This restriction shall not apply to the 

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burning of log piles, stumps or brush heaps, 
in small quantities, under adequate precau- 
tions and personal control, and in accord- 
ance with any regulations which may be 
adopted by the state board of forestry for 
the purpose of insuring public safety; but 
if any such burning without permission 
shall result in the escape of fire and injury 
to the property of another, this shall be held 
prima facie evidence that such burning was 
Violation of these provisions shall be pun- 
not safe and was a violation of this section, 
ished by a fine of not less than five dollars 
($5.00), nor more than one hundred dollars 
($100.00), or by imprisonment of not less 
than two (2) days nor more than fifty 
(50) days. Permits to burn, as provided by 
this section, may be issued by any fire war- 
den, and shall contain such safeguarding 
restrictions as to time of burning and pre- 
caution to be taken as may be fixed by the 
state forester or left by him to the discre- 
tion of fire wardens. Any fire warden shall 
have the right to refuse, revoke or postpone 
permits when necessary to prevent danger 
to the life or property of another. Any 
permit obtained through wilful misrepre- 
sentation shall be invalid and give no exemp- 
tion from liability of any kind. In times 
and localities of unusual fire danger, the 
governor, with the advice of the state for- 
ester, may suspend any or all permits or 
privileges authorized by this section and 
prohibit absolutely the use of fire herein 
mentioned. Whenever, or wherever, during 
an open season for the hunting of any kind 
of game in this state, it shall appear to the 
governor upon the showing of the state for- 
ester that by reason of extreme drought the 
use of firearms or fire by hunters is liable 
to cause forest fires, he may, by proclama- 
tion, suspend the open season and make it 
a closed season for the shooting of wild 
birds and animals of any kind for such 
time as he may designate, and during the 
time so designated all provisions of law 



relating to closed seasons for game shall bo 
in force. 

Section 8. Any person who sets on fire, 
or causes to be set on fire, any woods, brush 
grass, grain, stubble, or other material 
being or growing on any lands not his own, 
without permission from the owner, or who 
wilfully or negligently allows fire to escape 
from his own land, or any one who acci- 
dentally sets any fire on his own land or 
another's and allows it to escape from his 
control without extinguishing it, or using 
every effort to do so, shall be punished by 
a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars 
($25.00), nor more than five hundred dol- 
lars ($500.00), or imprisonment for not less 
than ten (10) days nor more than three 
(3) months; provided, that it shall be law- 
ful to build, in a careful manner, camp 
fires on any uninclosed lands, the owner of 
which has not forbidden such building of 
camp fires thereon by personal notice or by 
posting such prohibition in conspicuous 
places or otherwise, if, before departing 
from the place where such camp fire hat 
been built, the builder of such fire totally 
extinguishes the same; and provided fur- 
ther, that nothing in this section shall apply 
to the setting of a back fire, in good faith 
to prevent the progress of a fire then 
burning. 

Section 9 (as amended 1919). Any per- 
son who builds a camp fire upon lands 
within this state, not his own, without 
clearing the ground immediately around it 
free from material which will carry fire, 
or who leaves thereon a camp fire burning 
and unattended, or who permits a camp fire 
to spread thereon, or who uses in any fire- 
arms discharged thereon other than incom- 
bustible gunwadding, shall be punished by 
a fine of not less than five dollars ($5.00 , 
nor more than one hundred dollars 

($100.00), or by imprisonment of not less 
than two (21 days nor more than fifty 

(50) days. Any fire on any forest land in 

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the state of Oregon burning uncontrolled 
and without proper precaution being taken 
to prevent its spread is hereby declared a 
public nuisance by reason of its menace to 
life or property. Any person, firm or cor- 
poration responsible for either the starting 
or the existence of such fire is hereby 
required to make a reasonable effort to con- 
trol or extinguish it immediately, without 
awaiting instructions from a forest officer, 
and if said responsible person, firm or cor- 
poration shall refuse, neglect or fail to do 
so, the state forester, or any fire warden 
or forest ranger acting under his authority, 
may summarily abate the nuisance thus con- 
stituted by controlling or extinguishing the 
fire and the cost thereof may be recovered 
from said responsible person, firm or cor- 
poration by action for debt; and, if the 
work is performed on the property of the 
offender, shall also constitute a lien upon 
said property. Such lien may be filed by 
the state forester in the office of the county 
clerk of the county in which the lands are 
situated, within sixty days from the ex- 
tinguishment of the fire, and may be fore- 
closed in the manner provided by law for 
the foreclosure of liens for labor and 
material. Upon the request of the state 
forester it shall be the duty of the district 
attorney of the district in which the lands 
are located to bring such action for debt or 
to foreclose such lien, in the name of the 
state of Oregon. 

Section 10. From June 1 to October 1 

of each year it shall be unlawful for any 

| person, fjrm or corporation, or employe 

j thereof, to use or operate any locomotive, 

I lorging engine, portable engine, traction 

] engine or stationary engine using fuel other 

than oil, in or near forest or brush land, 

which is not provided with an adequate 

spark arrester kept in constant use and 

repair. Any person, firm or corporation 

who shall wilfully fail to comply with the 

foregoing provisions of this section shall be 

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guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon convic- 
tion thereof shall pay a fine for each engine 
or locomotive without such spark arrester 
of not less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00) , 
nor more than one hundred dollars 
($100.00), and shall be enjoined from fur- 
ther use of such engine or locomotive until 
such spark arrester is provided. Escape 
of fire from any engine shall be prima facie 
evidence that such appliance has not been 
adequately maintained in compliance with 
this section. Upon proof that any prosecu- 
tion has been instituted under this section 
by any fire warden, any court of competent 
jurisdiction shall enjoin the further use of 
the engine involved, unless equipped and 
maintained in compliance with this section 
to the satisfaction of said fire warden, until 
the defendant has been acquitted of the 
charge preferred. 

Section 11. All persons, firms, or cor- 
porations engaged in logging, or permitting 
logging upon their lands, in this state, shall 
each year, burn their annual slashing, by 
which is meant the tops and inflammable 
refuse left after logging or woodcutting, 
that may carry fire or cause it to spread, 
at such time and in such manner and with 
such provision of help as will confine the 
fire to the lands upon which such slashing 
may be, and if such burning is done between 
June 1 and October 1 shall first cut down all 
dead trees or snags over twenty-five (25) 
feet high. Builders of trails, roads, or rail- 
roads, power, telegraph or telephone lines; 
in this state shall immediately destroy or 
remove all inflammable material resulting 
from constructing or clearing for such im- 
provements unless prevented under the pro- 
visions of Section 7 of this act. Any per- 
son, firm or corporation operating a rail- 
road in this state with coal or wood fuel! 
shall annually, or when so directed by the 
state board of forestry, and in a manner 
and to an extent directed by said board, 
destroy or remove all inflammable material 

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from the right of way of said railroad. 
All burning under the provisions of this sec- 
tion shall be in accordance with the pro- 
visions of Sections 7 and 8 of this act. 
Refusal or neglect to comply with the pro- 
visions of this section shall be punished by a 
fine of not less than one hundred dollars, 
($100.00) nor more than one thousand dol- 
lars ($1,000.00) for each offense; provided, 
that the state forester with the consent of the 
I board of forestry may suspend the restric- 
L tions of this section when and where he 
deems public safety so permits or requires; 
I it is further provided, that in the absence of 
such suspension, and in case of refusal or 
neglect by any person or persons at fault, 
after proper notice to take the precautions 
against fire required by this section, the 
state forester, or district fire warden acting 
with his consent, may have the work done 
to the extent he deems requisite to public 
safety, and the cost thereof and the expense 
of any fire patrol rendered necessary by the 
delay shall be recoverable from the offender 
by action for debt, prosecuted in the name of 
the state of Oregon. No contract for road, 
trail, power, telegraph and telephone lines, 
or railroad construction shall be let by any 
j state or county body, or officers, unless it 
■ contains specific provisions for the removal 
i of inflammable material resulting from con- 
1 struction, and no such work performed for 
such state or county body, or officers, shall 
I be accepted by them until such inflammable 
! material has been removed. In case of fail- 
ure on the part of any county or state bodv 
\ or official, having charge of such work or 
j whose duty it is to accept the same, to com- 
pel the clearing of rights-of-way as above 
provided, or in case of failure to so clear 
them when work is performed by the state, 
county or road district, the state forester 
shall, upon complaint of any interested 
party investigate the condition existing and 
if _ sufficient inflammable material to con- 
stitute a menace to adjoining property 

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remains on the ground he shall notify the 
state or county official of the condition 
existing and set a reasonable time when t|e 
inflammable material must be disposed of 
Upon failure to remove said material in the 
time specified, the state forester may cause 
it to be removed and the expense of such 
work, together with the expense of any fir 
patrol rendered necessary, shall be certified 
by the state forester to the county in which 
the work was performed, and shall be paid 
by such county direct to the person, or 
persons performing the services. In case 
the improvement is being carried on by the 
state, then the certificate shall be to th 
proper state officer or body, and shall be 
paid as an expense of such office, and in 
case of private enterprises the expense of; 
removal and fire patrol shall be collectible 
as debts are collected. 

Justices of the peace, district courts and 
county courts shall have concurrent jurisi 
diction with the circuit courts of all prose-: 
cutions for violations of the act designated 
as Chapter 278 of the general laws of 
Oregon for 1911, and all acts supplemental 
thereto and amendatory thereof, including 
this act, as also of all actions by the stat 
for the recovery of the cost of protectin 
forest or cut-over lands incurred by the state 
forester or district fire warden acting wit! 
his consent, under the provisions of Sections 
5 and 11, of said act, as hereby amended 
All moneys collected under the provisions o 
said Sections 5 and 11, excepting fines, shal 
be paid into the state treasury and become 
a part of the fund appropriated for the paj 
ment of salaries and expenses of and i 
connection with the offices of the Oregoi 
State Board of Forestry and shall be ex 
pended as other moneys so appropriated arc 1 
expended. 

Section 12. Any person who shall un 
lav/fully or maliciously set fire to any woods 
forest, timber, brush or vegetable matte 
whatever with intent that the property . o 

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mother shall be injured thereby, shall be 
guilty of a felony, and upon conviction 
•hereof shall be punished by imprisonment 
n the state penitentiary for not less than 
me (1) year nor more than ten (10) years. 
Section 13. In addition to the penalties 
provided in this act, the United States, 
state, county, or private owners, whose 
Property is injured or destroyed by fires 
n violation of this act, may recover in a 
•ivil action double the amount of damages 
suffered if the fires occurred through wil- 
fulness, malice or negligence; but if such 
Mres were caused or escaped accidentally 
i>r unavoidably, civil action shall lie only 
'or the actual damage sustained as deter- 
nined by the value of the property injured 
>r destroyed, and the detriment to the land 
md vegetation thereof. Persons or corpora- 
tions causing fires by violations of this act 
•mail be liable in action for debt to the full 
imount of all expenses incurred in fighting 
!such fires. 

Section 14. Any person not employed 
md compensated as a fire warden who shall 
letect any one violating any of the pro- 
visions of this act, and shall furnish infor- 
nation leading to the arrest and conviction 
I jf such person, shall, upon his conviction, 
receive one-half of the fine paid by such 
person so convicted, otherwise all fines 
mposed under this act, less the cost of 
collection, shall go into the general fund of 
;he county in which conviction is had. 

Section 15. Whenever an arrest shall 

lave been made for violation of any pro- 

/ision of this act, or whenever any evidence 

] vhich shows with reasonable certainty any 

I such violation shall have been lodged with 

jiim, the district attorney for the county in 

vhich the criminal act was committed must 

Drosecute the offenders with all diligence 

md energy. If any district attorney shall 

j.ail to comply with the provisions of this 

section he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, 

md upon conviction shall be fined not less 

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than one hundred dollars ($100.00), nor; 
more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) 
in the discretion of the court. Prosecution 
against the district attorney shall be con- 
ducted by the attorney general. The penal- 
ties of this section shall apply to any justice 
of the peace, with proper authority, who re-; 
fuses or neglects to issue a warrant for 
the arrest of any person or persons when; 
complaint under oath of violation of any 
terms of this act has been lodged with him. 

Section 16. Any person who shall wil- 
fully destroy or injure any notice posted in 
compliance herewith shall be punished by 
fine of not less than ten dollars ($10.00), 
nor more than fifty dollars ($50.00), or by 
imprisonment for one (1) day for each two 
dollars ($2.00) of such fine imposed in case : 
of his neglect or refusal to pay such fine. 

Section 17. County boards of commis- 
sioners may appropriate money for forest 
protection under the provisions of this act; 
and expenses incurred by any county board 
of commissioners in accordance therewith 
shall be a proper county charge. 

Section 18. For the purpose of carrying 
out the provisions of this act, including 
the payment of the salaries and expenses 
of the officers and employes for which the 
state is liable under this act, there is 
hereby appropriated out of any funds in 
the treasury not otherwise appropriated the 
sum of sixty thousand dollars ($60,000.00) 
or so much thereof as may be necessary. The 
secretary of state is hereby authorized and 
directed to audit all duly approved claims; 
which have been incurred in pursuance of 
this act and the foregoing appropriation 
and to draw his warrant on the state; 
treasurer in the payment thereof out oi 
the appropriation made by this act or other 
appropriation from which the same may b€ 
determined to be payable. 



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T CHAPTER 90 

of the 
LAWS OF OREGON FOR 1913 

In effect June 3, 1913. 

AN ACT 
(To make every county judge ex officio a fire 
warden within his county and to provide the 
conditions under which slashings and tim- 
ber cuttings may be burned.) 
Be it enacted by the People of the State 
of Oregon: 
Section 1. That every county judge 
within the state of Oregon is ex officio a 
fire warden and shall have all the rights and 
powers and perform all the duties of a 
regularly appointed fire warden, within 
the boundaries of his county, as such 
rights, powers and duties are provided and 
defined by the general laws of Oregon. 
'Every such county judge is hereby author- 
ized to issue and revoke permits for burning 
j slashings, choppings, wood lands and brush 
lands between June 1 and October 1 of 
?ach year. 

Section 2. Every person to whom such 
a. permit is issued shall give at least twenty - 
'four hours' notice to each resident owner of 
! idjoining lands, of the time when he intends 
'to set fire in accordance with his permit. 

CHAPTER 247 

of the 
LAWS OF OREGON FOR 1913 

In effect June 3, 1913. 

AN ACT 

j (To require owners of timber lands to provide 

a fire patrol therefor.) 

! Be it enacted by the People of the State 

of Oregon: 

Section 1. Every owner of timber land 

'in the state of Oregon shall furnish or pro- 

/ide a sufficient fire patrol therefor, during 

the season of the year when there is danger 

of forest fires, which patrol shall meet with 

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the approval of the state board of forestry 

Section 2. In case any owner or ownersj 
shall fail or neglect to provide such/ fir 
patrol, then the state forester, under direc 
tion from the state board of forestry 
shall provide the same at a cost not t 
exceed five (5) cents per acre per annum 
Any amounts so paid or contracted to b 
paid by the state forester, shall be a liei 
upon the property, and shall be reporter 
by the state forester to the county cour 
of the county in which such lands arej 
situated, and shall by such court be levied! 
and collected with the next taxes on suchl 
lands in the same manner as taxes are! 
collected. Said county court shall instructij 
the proper officer to extend the amounts on| 
the assessment roll in a separate column J 
and the procedure provided by law for thai 
collection of taxes and delinquent taxes! 
shall be applicable thereto, and upon col-| 
lection thereof the county court shall repay] 
the same to the state forester, to be applied! 
to the expenses incurred in carrying out! 
the provisions of this act. 

Section 3. For the purposes of this act J 
any land shall be considered timber land] 
which has enough timber standing or down's 
to constitute, in the judgment of the state! 
board of forestry, a fire menace to itself] 
or adjoining lands. 

Section 4. The owner of any land com-| 
ing under the provisions of this act, who! 
shall reside within one and one-half miles 
of said land, shall be considered, by virtue.! 
of said residence, to maintain a sufficient] 
fire patrol and shall not be compelled tn] 
maintain additional patrol on such land. 

Section 5. For the purposes of this act 
an adequate fire patrol shall be construe 
to mean one equal to that maintained b 
fifty per cent of timber owners in the sam 
locality, or under similar conditions in othe: 
localities, who are in good faith patrollin 
their lands against fire. 



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ABSTRACT, OREGON GAME LAWS 
1919-1920 

OPEN HUNTING SEASON, AImT, DATES 
INCLUSIVE. 

District Ho. 1 

Comprising- All Counties "West of the Cascade 
Mountains 
Buck deer with horns, September 1 to Octo- 

Silver gray squlri'eVs; September 1 to Octo- 
ber 31. 

■? Ducks, geese, rails, coots, jacksnipe and 
greater and lesser , yellowlegs, October 1$ to 
February r l 5; 1 'except that' in 1 Multnomah, Clat- 
sop, Columbia and Tillamook- ' Counties, the 
©pel*,-; season fovuth& same, birds is from Sep- 
tember,- 16 to. .December 31. 

Chinese; ^hjeaeansts and> grouse, October 1 to 
October,, 31, except ; Jackson county where the 
season is from October l to October it). No 
open- season in Josephine, Coos and Curry 
counties or Chinese pheasants, Douglas coun- 
ty, sooty grouse, September 1 to September BO. 

'"Mountain and California quail in Jackson, 
JosepTilney ^C6'6'£ arid Curry counties, open sea- 
son ; from ) October 1 to October 31. No: open 
season; on-; bob-white , quail anywhere. 

' Doves 'ana wild pigeons,, September 1 to 
October 31. 

District No. 2 
Comprising' -Aft \€omtt&s^: East ; of/< the Cascade 

Buck deer with horns, September 1 to October 
31,- /except' in Union arid Wallowa counties 
where' the open season is from 'September 10 
to- November flfl. 
• :, Silver igi;ay squirrels; .no open; season. 

Ducks, geese, rails, coots, jacksnipe: and 
greater and lesser yellowlegs, October 1 to 
January 15. 
.Chinese) pheasants,, no, open , season except as 
lqIIows: Union, Umatilla, Baker, Grant, Mal- 
ieur counties, open season first' Sunday in 
October to second Sunday in October. Hood 
diver and Wasco counties, last Monday in 
Dctober to the first Monday in November. . 

Grouse, August 15 to October 31, except in 
Jnion and Wallowa counties open season 
Vugust 1 to November 10. 

Prairie chickens, open season in Wasco and 
Sherman counties, October 1 to October 15. 
Closed in all other counties. 

Mountain and California quail, Klamath 
;ounty, October 1 to October 10. Closed in all 
»ther counties. 

Sage hens, July 15 to August 31. 

Doves, September! to October 31. 



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Bag* Limits 

Buck deer, with horns; — Two during any 
season. 

Silver gray squirrels — Five in any seven 
consecutive days. 

Ducks, geese, rails, coots and shore birds — ■ 
Twenty-five in any one day and not more than 
thirty in any seven consecutive days. 

Chinese pheasants, native pheasants and 
grouse- — Five in any one day and ten in any 
seven consecutive days. Three female birds 
permitted in bag of ten. 

Prairie chickens and sage hens — Five in one 
day and ten in any seven consecutive days. 

Quail — Ten in any seven consecutive days. 

Doves — Ten in one day or twenty in any 
seven consecutive days. 



OPEN ATHGImIIXG seasons— both 

DISTRICTS 

Trout over six inches — April 1 to October 31. 
Bag limit, 50 fish or 35 pounds in any one day. 

•'Yanks,*' in Wallowa lake — All year, except 
October 10 to December 31. Bag limit, 50 
pounds in one day. 



No shooting of migratory game birds be- 
tween sunset and one-half hour before sunrise. 



